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First Look: Interpreting Early European Artistic Renderings of the New World

Michael Gaudio (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota)

November 16, 2010

Where do “art” and “science” intersect in John White’s 16th century watercolors of Virginia? How would his paintings have been seen by his contemporaries? What impact did White’s work have on later generations?


Subjects

Art / History / Paintings / Colonialism / Roanoke Colony / Indigenous Americans /